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Dec 27, 2021 • 5min
Skio raises $3.7M to help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions
Skio, a startup that aims to take the pain out of selling subscriptions for brands on Shopify, has raised $3.7 million in a seed funding round. Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 24, 2021 • 5min
With $36 million Series C, Brazil’s Ambar hopes to make civil construction more efficient
Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round of R$204 million, approximately $36 million, to boost the digitization arm of its business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 23, 2021 • 5min
TikTok rival Triller to go public via merger with SeaChange International
Short video app Triller is set to go public via a reverse merger with video-tech company SeaChange International, the two companies announced on Wednesday. The combined entity will be valued at approximately $5 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2021 • 6min
Ampla raises $40M Series A for its business of providing credit to commerce brands
Ampla Technologies, a startup which provides financing to small-to-medium sized consumer-facing businesses, announced today it has raised $40 million in a Series A round of funding co-led by VMG Partners and Forerunner Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 22, 2021 • 4min
Airtable acqui-hires Walrus.ai’s founding team
Airtable today announced that it quietly acquired Walrus.ai, a no-code software testing platform, earlier this year. ‘Acquired’ may be overstating things a bit, though. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2021 • 5min
Rocket Companies buys Truebill for $1.275B
Rocket Companies announced this morning that it will purchase Truebill for $1.275 billion in cash. Rocket Companies is best known for its Rocket Mortgage product, while Truebill is a consumer-facing app that helps consumers manage subscriptions, automate savings and budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 21, 2021 • 5min
Melbourne-based edtech startup Vivi raises $20M to accelerate overseas expansion in race to reach 1M classrooms
Australian edtech start-up Vivi has raised $20 million from education investor Quad Partners, funds that it intends to use to improve its platform, upgrade its operational infrastructure, and hire more sales and marketing teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 20, 2021 • 5min
GDevelop wants to make game development accessible
GDevelop is a game engine that lets you develop a video game without any specific development experience. While the ‘no-code’ trend has been quite popular this year, GDevelop has been around for a few years already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 20, 2021 • 5min
Tiger Global backs fintech CreditBook in first Pakistan investment
Two years ago, a group of entrepreneurs in Pakistan began surveying the market to understand why financial services weren’t reaching the majority of merchants in the world’s fifth most populous nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 17, 2021 • 4min
Z Fellows wants to give you $10K to launch a crypto startup
Capital may help someone take the jump into entrepreneurship, but what about the activation energy to let them think that big in the first place? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
